alt Hacker News> Incoming HN downvotes because I'm not using the coolest latest technology.
"IPv6 just turned 30" - literally the first part of the post title.
The rest of the post is equally baffling, you are just clinging to a legacy bottleneck (NAT) that was never designed to be a security feature
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alt227 • 01/02/2026
NAT superceded ipv6 quite plainly, and it is obvious what technology won out.
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> never designed to be a security feature
It's virtually always used with some firewall rules, so it sort of is? It's just dogma to insist that there are no security benefits to having a single choke point for traffic.